kaoliang
Americannoun
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a variety of grain sorghum.
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a liquor made from kaoliang stalks.
noun
Etymology
Origin of kaoliang
< Chinese (Wade-Giles) kao1liang 2 , (pinyin) gāoliang ( gāo high + liáng millet)
Example Sentences
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Kinmen's economic future lies with China and its vast supply of tourists and kaoliang customers, Li believes.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 19, 2014
Kinmen officials are scrambling to reinvent the island's economy, seeking to increase exports of its famously strong kaoliang liquor.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 19, 2014
The battle had begun in early August, when the kaoliang was still green and Communists encircled the strategic coal and railroad center.
From Time Magazine Archive
Along a battered railway in North Shansi, where the year's last tasseled kaoliang still stands unreaped, the biggest, bloodiest battle in a year of China's civil war has just ended.
From Time Magazine Archive
The kaoliang is a sort of sorghum, the grain being used for food, while the stalks, which contain but little sugar, are used for fuel.
From Where Half The World Is Waking Up The Old and the New in Japan, China, the Philippines, and India, Reported With Especial Reference to American Conditions by Clarence Hamilton Poe
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